Personally I’d go with Independence Day if I had to pick a movie that felt the most 90s.
I’d add Speed. Sandra Bullock was the 90s it actress. And Keanu has already been mentioned in a couple of essential 90s titles.
“Mozart’s Ghost! The hottest new site on the internet!”
That’s my second choice after Hackers.
And you complete the 90s hacker trifecta with Sneakers
God that’s such a good movie. Probably gonna throw that on soon since haven’t watched it in years.
My wife rolls her eyes how every time I see a Honda Passport I say “My voice is my passport, verify me”.
The cast alone makes the movie worth it
Can I add Johnny Mnemonic to this list? Classic Keanu
“I NEED to get on-line. I NEED a computer!”
Information Overload! Rollins deserves to be an EGOT.
Gotta double the capacity of the 80 GB drive in my head
“Hack the planet!”
HACKERS
Speed or mallrats depending on what kind of vibe you’re going for
edit: upon reflection I will change my Sandra bullock movie to “the net”. Terrible, but strong 90s vibes
Ninja turtles or surf ninjas
Man we had a whole ninja thing for a while there didn’t we
The Matrix
Wow, I forgot it came out in 1999, I guess, technically. It’s one of my favorite movies ever of all time, but it was too far ahead of its time for me to think of it as 90s movie.
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The Sandlot
Can’t believe no one mentioned Men In Black and Mulan.
Am I the only person who watched Singles (1993)? OK, pretty forgettable romcom, but absolutely the soundtrack of the 90s.
Oh, yeah. It unofficially spawned “Friends,” too. Also, if you watch the music videos of the OST songs, you’ll find many (all?) of them have a “Singles” movie poster hanging somewhere. What an amazing level of coordination.
True Romance
While reading up on The Last Boy Scout, I found this:
Shane Black and Tony Scott both expressed dissatisfaction with the final film, and said in later years how the original script was far better. Scott accused Joel Silver of interfering with the production and swore off working with the producer again. His next film, True Romance, features an unflattering film producer character patterned after Silver.
Hackers
Definitely my first thought
I had a “back to the 90s” chill day with my brother this spring. Johnny Mnemonic got us in the feels the hardest :).
Just rewatched that as well. Some of my favorite parts:
- It’s set in 2021
- His brain implanted hard drive holds a whopping 80GB. He uses a “doubler” to increase his capacity to 160GB. The whole plot of the movie is that he loads 320GB in, which leaks into his brain, and he has to get it back out before it kills him.
- The encryption key to the data is photos of a tube television screen that have to be faxed to the recipient.
- One futuristic aspect to his hotel room is that the TV wakes him up with a personal message on screen and then he uses it for a video call.
- The local rebels are a group called the Low-Teks - led by Ice-T. They end up having the highest end tech.
- The best doctor around is Henry Rollins.
Johnnys head would probably explode if he even heard of the data storage clusters I was working with on a daily basis in 2021.
Biodome
What, do you think you’re so smart? Think you’re some rocket scientist?
Yes
…sorry
Biodome
Sadly this might be the most 90s of 90s movie. Others like Terminator are sequels, or movies like You’ve Got Mail are scripts written 10 years prior. Biodome is a time capsule of mid 1990s.
Few more I can offer up are Freejack Tank Girl Don’t be a menace
Other’n a couple others named? My Cousin Vinny.
(Some quotes to help my arguement: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/ )
My absolute favorite comedy.
Yep, it’s really a lot of fun. A little hard on some parts of both southern culture and NY culture, but just enough to make it even funnier. Not just Pesci as a lawyer and all the lawyer jokes; making a judge out of Fred Gwynne so he could make all those facial expressions he’d perfected was a casting winner. So was Marisa Tomei. And the characters that played witnesses … to this day when I’m saying ‘I guess’ it always comes out with that drawl. Every scene in the film was comical first, and never let up. Masterpiece.
Couldn’t agree more. I’m a car, guy so the fact that the final argument hinged on that was aces. And I think my favorite part was just a little things that happened at the beginning. Most people wouldn’t even notice, but when the prison guard brought Vinny to the jail cell, Vinny have him a tip. Just cracked me up!
Fun fact, did you know Maria Tomei won the Oscar for her performance? Totally deserved it.
Yeh, she was outstanding. That ‘poor little deer’ scene in that Brooklyn accent alone.
“What is a yute?”
Ace Ventura
I heard animals in there, Ventura. I heard them again in there this morning, scratching around.
I was going to say The Mask
I was thinking of that one too. Many of the movies where Cameron Diaz plays the protagonists love interest can be summed up as a quintessential 90’s movie.
